Saddest Video Game Song/Melody

[Incredible Bullshitting Man]

"To Zanarkand" from Final Fantasy X and "Father and Son" from Metal Gear Solid 4.

To Zanarkand for me was definitely the saddest song EVER in my long life of gaming, and it really set the tone for the whole game. Which was depressing.

It is a wonderful song, and FF series is full of truly sad songs. Uematsu knows his stuff. I find Sorrow and Regret from Golden Sun to be really heart-breaking. There are just too many sad song out there to be listed in here, but currently this one impresses me the most.

 

[Hazy]

Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts or Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

Read that and instantly thought you meant Green Day and started chuckling.


Again, I'm hesitant to claim this is the "saddest" because I have not sampled everything there is to offer in the world.

"I know you must feel like the unluckiest man in the world right now, but you're the only hope I'll Ever see my wife and child again-"
Damnit Atlas, get out of my head!

 

[Iron Mal]

The saddest I've ever heard is the 'you have died' result screen for the final mission in Resident Evil Outbreak (the single piano melody made me cry dammit!).

 

[Julianking93]

Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts or Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

Read that and instantly thought you meant Green Day and started chuckling.


Again, I'm hesitant to claim this is the "saddest" because I have not sampled everything there is to offer in the world.

Oh god don't even get me started on Green Day, they fuckin suck balls

 

[Hazy]

Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts or Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

Read that and instantly thought you meant Green Day and started chuckling.


Again, I'm hesitant to claim this is the "saddest" because I have not sampled everything there is to offer in the world.

Oh god don't even get me started on Green Day, they fuckin suck balls

Somewhere.. Max is plotting your downfall.

 

[-Seraph-]

FF6 had some really sad/touching ones, damn I love it's sound track to bits.

 

[Julianking93]

Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts or Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

Read that and instantly thought you meant Green Day and started chuckling.


Again, I'm hesitant to claim this is the "saddest" because I have not sampled everything there is to offer in the world.

Oh god don't even get me started on Green Day, they fuckin suck balls

Somewhere.. Max is plotting your downfall.

does he like green day or somethin

 

[thest3alth]

Triage at Dawn, from Half Life 2, sounds pretty sad.

 

[Hazy]

Dearly Beloved from Kingdom Hearts or Song of Healing from Majora's Mask

Read that and instantly thought you meant Green Day and started chuckling.


Again, I'm hesitant to claim this is the "saddest" because I have not sampled everything there is to offer in the world.

Oh god don't even get me started on Green Day, they fuckin suck balls

Somewhere.. Max is plotting your downfall.

does he like green day or somethin

His Avatar used to be Billy Jo Armstrong, so thats a definite yes*

*Note: Might just be a freak coincidence, and not a yes.

 

[scnj]

The one that springs immediately to mind is Old Snake from MGS4.

The vast majority of the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack is pretty melancholy as well. Apart from Angel's Thanatos. I've played through 21 times and never noticed it in game. Does anybody know if it's there at all? And if so, where?

 

[Ignignokt]

FF6 had some really sad/touching ones, damn I love it's sound track to bits.

That was going to be my answer.

 

[RedVelvet]

A lot of Final Fantasies have awesome songs like that.

 

[skips]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn-OO7FbeJE

Paper Mario - Star Sanctuary

 

[Mr. Fister]

The music to the credits for Twilight Princess (especially when it slows down) almost had me in tears. Of course, the cutscene that plays and the fact that I never wanted the game to end may also have been a factor.

 

[wewontdie11]

That depends, can I count Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata from Resident Evil 1? If so that, without question.

If not, probably some of the piano tracks from the last few cut scenes of FFX.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I believe it's 'Scars of Time' from Chrono Cross. That tune was just...

Either that, or 'To Zanarkand' from FFX, man that tune was depressing.

 

[Summerstorm]

"Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall is pretty sad (and great). (It's the Max Payne 2 - Soundtrack)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KuFmGxMcZI

It is just awesome, hearing it, after you got through the game on "Dead on arrivel"- mode when Mona survives the end, Max's problems are solved and he says: "I had a dream of my wife... She was dead, but it was all right" and this song begins to play... awesome.

 

[jimduckie]

the end music of mgs4

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Adagio for Strings as featured in Homeworld is hard to beat.


For original game music the end theme to ICO, You were there, makes me feel nostalgic.

 

[Low Frost]

Sending a Dream to the Stars, from FF7.
Also known as the slow version of Cid's Theme.